A record business legend, whose personality and influence still casts its long shadow over the industry, was laid to rest in Chelmsford crematorium last Friday at the funeral of Maurice "Obie" Oberstein.

Obie, 72, passed away last Monday at London's Royal Free Hospital after a long battle with leukaemia. Friends say one of the record executive's last wishes was for half his ashes to be scattered on Cheltenham race course with the rest at Loftus Road football ground where he ...